24 Facts About Carlos Dengler

Carlos Andres Dengler is an American musician, actor, composer, and writer.

Carlos Dengler has performed in regional theaters, appeared in various short films, and released three albums.

Carlos Dengler's essays have appeared in n+1 and Tablet Magazine.

Carlos Dengler is the co-founder and former bass guitarist and keyboardist for the rock band Interpol.

Carlos Dengler is a NYC-based composer, actor, writer, and multi-instrumentalist.

Carlos Dengler is an amateur nature photographer, avid backpacker, and naturalist.

Carlos Dengler played an instrumental role in the success of the band Interpol, co-founding the group in the 1990s with Daniel Kessler, Paul Banks and Greg Drudy.

Carlos Dengler became a classically trained actor after leaving the band in 2010, and earned an MFA in Acting in 2015.

Carlos Dengler performed a one-person theatrical show at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2016.

Carlos Dengler has written many personal essays, several of which have been published in literary journals.

Carlos Dengler has scored films, and released compositions of ambient and New Age music.

Kessler had been looking for musicians to play with, and assumed Carlos Dengler to be one based on the clothes he wore, a style Kessler described as "similar to the way he's dressed now".

Carlos Dengler was studying philosophy and history at the time, and wanted to pursue a career as an academic, but agreed to play with the then unformed band, eventually finding his place within the group.

Carlos Dengler was a regular in the Lower East Side party scene.

Three months after Carlos Dengler left Interpol, the band revealed that he actually disliked playing bass guitar.

Drummer Sam Fogarino stated that Carlos Dengler had grown tired of the instrument and of touring, and that it was neither his first instrument nor his instrument of choice.

Carlos Dengler played a cream jazz bass on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2007.

Carlos Dengler worked with a mixture of classic synthesizer and orchestral emulations to generate arrangements for Interpol and for his scores.

Carlos Dengler stopped for a short time, but picked it up again, and as Interpol's fame increased, he started pulling in bigger crowds, both at the band's after-parties and separate gigs in various cities.

Carlos Dengler was the first rock star to appear on the cover of the electronic and hip-hop centered URB magazine, in 2005.

Carlos Dengler contributed underscoring to the piece "Katya and Josh Ain't Havin' It" to the HBO Voyeur Project.

Carlos Dengler presented an autobiographical one-man show at the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival, Homo Sapiens Interruptus, which focused on his interest in heavy metal and paleoanthropology as well as revisiting his life leading up to and including his involvement with Interpol.

In 2020, Carlos Dengler appeared in the short film, A 1984 Period Piece in Present Day.

Carlos Dengler's essays have been featured in n+1, the Mars Review of Books, and Tablet Magazine.